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2008-06-18 India-Pakistan
Taliban capture US helicopter parts
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Posted by john frum 2008-06-18 07:02|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban 

#1 I got it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime...

My apologies to Johnny Cash!
Posted by One Eyed Ulese1266 2008-06-18 08:56||   2008-06-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 All according to plan. The Taliban will now be compelled to establish an air force, go "Joint" and be plagued by a downturn in combat effectiveness, female pilots, mission squables, inter-service funding rivalries, maintenance funding and run away replacement contract costs. Future plans call for the Taliban "capture" of an Amphibious Assault Vehicle and an Osprey.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-18 09:09||   2008-06-18 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 'Taliban' my behind.
Somebody in the Pak military is making some serious coin selling stuff to the Iranians and Chinese.
Posted by john frum 2008-06-18 09:24||   2008-06-18 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Capture enough parts, you guys can make your very own helicopter!
Warranty not included
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-06-18 09:33||   2008-06-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 There is a lot of disingenuousness in this article.

I especially note:

The Taliban have recently conducted bloody operations against the Nato forces in Shenwro district of Parwaon province in the north, Taren Kot city of Uruzgan province in the south and Poli Alm city of Logar province close to Kabul. All these are not close to the Pakistani borders

Their proximity to the borders is irrelevant - the forces there CAME from the Paki border areas and are resupplied from there, and use the Paki border areas to reassemble, regroup, train and plan these operations. Lying scumbag Paki propagandist.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 10:19||   2008-06-18 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Why do we seem to be having so much trouble obliterating these 9th century scumbags? What is the prob?
Posted by Glaviper Hitler3509 2008-06-18 11:39||   2008-06-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Rope-a-dope. With plenty emphasis on the dope part...
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2008-06-18 12:58||   2008-06-18 12:58|| Front Page Top

#8 AFP sez...

In a further blow to Western forces, the separate US-led coalition said on Wednesday that four helicopter engines worth 13 million dollars had gone missing in the region.

The engines were being shipped by a Pakistani trucking company when they disappeared, some time before April 11, the coalition said.
Posted by tu3031 2008-06-18 12:58||   2008-06-18 12:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Upgrading the camels no doubt
Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger  2008-06-18 13:08||   2008-06-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Why do we seem to be having so much trouble obliterating these 9th century scumbags? What is the prob?

It's kind of hard playing hide-and-seek with targets you can't sort out from the actual civilians. Especially when these targets are either tolerated or actively supported by the Pakistani government. And these aren't actually 7th century folks - they have a 7th century ideology, but are equipped with 21st century weaponry, communications technology and tactical manuals.

It may be that Obama is right, but not in the way he means. We may well have to invade Pakistan, after all. Wouldn't it be weird if we ended up going to war with China over Pakistan?
Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei  2008-06-18 13:14|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2008-06-18 13:14|| Front Page Top

#11 
Well, do you think those parts will work if the pick-up breaks down?
Posted by BigEd 2008-06-18 13:21||   2008-06-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Time to start napalming parts of the NWFP. ARCLIGHT strikes are also encouraged, beginning in Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Peshawar. We also need to bomb Quetta off the map and thus destroy half the Taliban "army". We also need to send a "stern note" to the Pakistanis that if they won't clean up their house, we'll do it for them. There might not be much of a house left when we finish, though...
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2008-06-18 13:32|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2008-06-18 13:32|| Front Page Top

#13 #8 AFP sez...

Damn there's that AFP Rapporteur™ again... anybody else want to interpret him?

my take..
As per usual the Pakis are out and out shaking us down again, with a cargo protection racket this time.
Posted by RD">RD  2008-06-18 13:49||   2008-06-18 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Yee International News.../correction
Posted by RD">RD  2008-06-18 13:52||   2008-06-18 13:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Couple thoughts come to mind; we could continue to ship parts through there, knowing they might get picked off, but these parts would be 'special;' as in defective and after a few minutes use come apart. the good guys would be told not use parts with certain serial numbers.
other thought has a visual of Wile E. Al-Coyote strapping those engines to an Acme camel......
Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-06-18 14:34||   2008-06-18 14:34|| Front Page Top

#16 GPS and transmitter in every box to feed target coordinates to predators if it drifts off the preprogrammed path...
or just a built in bomb if it leaves the path...
Posted by 3dc 2008-06-18 14:42||   2008-06-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Wouldn't it be weird if we ended up going to war with China over Pakistan?

History shows that China will abandon Pakistan when the crunch time comes.

In 1971 Pakistan was sure that China would come to their aid, that they would never allow the country to be split in half.

Henry Kissinger even tried to convince Zhou Enlai to initiate some diversionary action on the Indo-Chinese border to take the heat off Pakistan.

When the besieged Pakistani troops saw paratroopers descending, their rushed out in joy, thinking their Chinese allies had come to their rescue. Well those paras were not Chinese and 90,000 Pak troops ended up as POWs in India.

In the end China didn't want to risk conflict with the Soviet Union, certainly not over Pakistan, which in the end was expendable.
Posted by john frum 2008-06-18 17:34||   2008-06-18 17:34|| Front Page Top

#18 Next, we will probably hear about Paki nuclear weapons being stolen by the Taliban. Inside job no doubt.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-18 22:53||   2008-06-18 22:53|| Front Page Top

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